I don’t personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.
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More Ai Weiwei Quotes
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The only way to avoid misunderstanding, war and bloodshed is to defend freedom of expression and to communicate with sincerity, concern and good intentions.
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Liberty is about the right to question everything.
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I want people to see their own power.
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If a master, a wise and experienced man, wields a great weapon, that’s beautiful. He can serve peace with it. But if someone’s emotions are imbalanced, even if he has the best equipment,
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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.
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I have people working together, doing different things: architecture, art installation, photography, publishing, and curatorial works and design.
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I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.
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Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I’m not nostalgic about the old city. I don’t enjoy it that much.
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Now you have the equal opportunity to equip yourself through information and knowledge and express yourself as an independent mind.
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The whole attitude of society has become much more open and realistic. They realize that the only way to make a more democratic and free society is to let different opinions come out.
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Liberty is about our rights to question everything.
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I don’t think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism.
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A clear understanding of such differences will help the rest of the world understand China and all that is happening to the nation.
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In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want — not only you, your whole family and all people like you.
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I hope that my work expresses my worldview and encourages people to exchange ideas.
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